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Jolt of energy is bringing landfill mining to life | Damian Carringtonhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/may/27/landfill-mining-waste-energy
Mining the rubbish buried by previous generations for valuable commodities has been a dream: now it's becoming a reality<p>As you'll know. mining digs out seams of valuable material from under the surface of the Earth. But what if that material was junk we had dumped into landfill sites over the last 50 years?</p><p>I'd heard of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining">concept before</a> and it had a sci-fi appeal, set in a Mad Max-like future where, say, petrochemicals had become scarce and expensive. There's been mention of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3160259/Britain-could-be-mining-landfill-for-gold-in-a-decade.html">mining for gold</a> from circuit boards and <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4510201.ece">plastics</a> before, always a decade away. But perhaps it's coming much sooner than that via a change of focus onto a commodity even more fundamental: energy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/may/27/landfill-mining-waste-energy">Continue reading...</a>WasteLandfillRenewable energyBiomass and bioenergyEnvironmentFri, 27 May 2011 10:51:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/may/27/landfill-mining-waste-energyPhotograph: Owen Humphreys/PABirds look for food at the Seaton Meadows Landfill site in Hartlepool. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PAPhotograph: Owen Humphreys/PABirds look for food at the Seaton Meadows Landfill site in Hartlepool. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PADamian Carrington2011-05-27T10:51:00Z